Be forewarned: The writer of this blog is an extremely cynical, snarky, pro-US, secular, libertarian, disgruntled sandmonkey. If this is your cup of tea, please enjoy your stay here. If not, please sod off

I remember taking a cab from the marina to Hurgahda town centre last year. The Cab driver was pissed off about his car which cost him about 14000 GBP and how is was falling to bits. For about 10 minutes the one sided converstion was about `Fuk*ng this and that` and how he wished he could get a new one.

Gave him a big fare. He waited for us to return as well. You don't get that service in the UK. However you don't get taxi cabs that seem to be made from 3 different vehicles either.

Cab drivers are funny everywhere, still non's funnier than the ones in Cairo, almost each one you ride with leaves you with a funny story, I just couldn't forget this one, it was the next morning after the airing of the last episode of Raafat el Hagan in which he finally died, sad enough, but aparently this driver had nothing else going in his life except these series and that he took it much harder than the rest of the people.

Driver (with a deep painful sigh): Did you watch Raafat el Hagan yesterday?Me: Yes.Driver (with another agony saturated sigh): He died yesterday.Me: Yeah.Driver (with another sigh): Yeah, it's as if my own brother died.Me(to myself):I can imagine what kind of shallow human beings you and your brother must be.Driver: But the good thing (sigh) is that he told yosra that he's egyptian and moslem (sigh).Me( couldn't help but think that the real Mrs.Hagan lived all her life with him as an israeli): But she lived with him and loved him as an israeli jew.Driver ( not a sigh of agony this time but one of frustration by my stupidity): Deep in her heart she knew he was a moslem, don't you remember that she said that she caught him several times reading the Koran.Me (thinking of what would've happened if Menachem Begin's wife or for that matter Netanyahu's caught him reading the Koran, would they also know deep in their hearts that they're married to a closeted egyptian moslem spy): I'm sure that's for dramatization, I don't think the real Hagan could be that sloppy.Driver(completely ignoring me now): Also thank god that 3azeez el gebally went to his funeral and gave him an islamic burial.Me:Indeed. Driver: Did you know that his wife and son are now living in Egypt we enehom homa el etnane aslamo "and both of them converted to islam".?Me: Wonderful.Driver (with his deepest sigh yet, since we were approaching my destination): ahhhhhhhhh, allah yer7amo "may god forgive him".

Is it hard to believe that something like that could happen in Egypt? It's not that ridiculous...I've heard stupider stuff than that come from people's mouths in Egypt.

Who the hell said I hate Egypt you imbecile. Keep your mouth shut if you don't have anything nice to say. Hate Egypt? I love my country deeply, I just hate Ignorant assholes...please don't be one Mohamed.